I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.